Henshaw, who added this bird to our avifauna in 1874, states that flocks of ten or fifteen were common around Camp Apache, Arizona, during the latter part of July. They frequented pines and spruces exclusively. Their habits were a strange mixture of Warbler and Redstart mannerisms, and sometimes recalled the less graceful motions of the familiar Titmice. Their favorite hunting places were extremities of evergreen limbs over which they passed quickly with a peculiar and constant sidewise jerk of the tails.